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Jimmy Kimmel returned with his original episodes Monday night after a week-long vacation and spent nearly his entire 16-minute monologue responding to the Donald Trump news he missed — including the president launching new attacks against ABC. Jimmy Kimmel Live! Hosts.
Detailing a fundraising email in which the president accused Kimmel of being “at it again,” Kimmel responded: “I was at home doing nothing!”
“The subject line was: ‘DJT: Get Trump out of your mouth’ — which is somehow not a line from the Trump-Epstein files,” Kimmel said. “Please give [money] So his feelings aren’t hurt anymore, people. Why does a second-term president send out fundraising emails? Maybe he needs to pay all the big, beautiful customs duties he has to pay back now.
Noting that the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s widely unpopular tariffs as “unlawful,” Kimmel called the ruling “the most humiliating legal defeat for Donald Trump — but even more so than the legal defeat suffered by the porn star where he farted during the entire trial. So what do you do in a situation like this, where you’re being publicly slapped down by your own conservative court? Well, I’ll tell you what you do.”
This was, of course, Trump’s announcement of declassifying files related to unidentified flying objects and aliens. “That’s right, he’s sending aliens… It makes you stop and wonder what the hell could be in those three million files on Trump and Epstein.”
Kimmel noted that Trump complained about his approval rating, with the president indicating that it reached 40 percent.
“I got 36 percent,” he replied. “The latest polls show that Donald Trump will enter tomorrow’s State of the Union address with his lowest approval rating. [He has this] A strange pathological reflex to raise the number. It’s very automatic. Even when the number is bad, it bumps it up to a number that’s a little less bad. The good news is that I don’t think so [distraction] It doesn’t work anymore.”
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